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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter)

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 2h

Soooooooo the garnishment isn't over. Interest and fees mean I still have this and one more check to go.

On the one hand, it's a cruel rug pull. On the other, this is the first time all year that this isn't panic inducing. We are OK. We will be OK.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 3h

I happen to know these two characters WOULD dance for this message.

Tabitha Fringe Chase @tabby676.bsky.social · 3h

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3h

Well, good for DC

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DC Comics won’t support generative AI: ‘not now, not ever’

“People have an instinctive reaction to what feels authentic.”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 1d

this

🕷️Gory Thing🕷️ @korybing.bsky.social · 1d

Taps the sign

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Barbara Longley Author (no DMs) 📎 @blongley.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning, creatives! I've always been fascinated by crows and ravens because they are so intelligent. I've watched numerous documentaries, and I will find a way to write them into a fantasy story. Is there an animal that fascinates you?
#5amwritersclub #writingcommunity

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Dani Finn 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · 20h

While it’s true we shouldn’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good, we don’t have to accept the deeply shitty as the only alternative to the even shittier

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Scott Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 20h

When it comes to A.I., all of its ideal use cases are utterly moot until the underlying issues are first resolved.

The dangers is presents must first be tackled with unrestrained gusto and diligence. The power usage, the misinformation, the incentivization of dismantling industries.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 19h

I think the farmer thing is still not sinking in for a lot of people that didn't grow up around it.

Farming is already an extremely hard market to break into. Most new equipment, which you must sign away your rights to maintain on your own, cost upwards of 1.5 to 2 million dollars. Each.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

farmers are probably generationally fucked. medicaid recipients are fucked barring some fix in the next budget round. rural health care systems are toast. employment is looking *very* wobbly.

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Justin Wallace @justingwallace.bsky.social · 18h

This made me snort-laugh.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 19h

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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Stop Skeletons From Fighting | SSFF @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 23h

I’m still early into Yooka-Replaylee but…

They did it!

Immediately - controls better, looks better, sounds better, paced SO MUCH better, and funnier. And I say this as someone who still does not like the original Yooka-Laylee. But Replaylee so far is good, maybe even great!

a lizard with a purple spider on its head

ALT: a lizard with a purple spider on its head

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 22h

That's so rad.

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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 1d

#booksky #writers #writing

Text: Good writing habit: use active voice. If the words sense any weakness at all, they'll rise up and seize control of the page, sowing chaos and death. Beware the words... -The Writer's Mysterium

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 1d

It feels like there aren’t enough chapters left for a plot twist this year so let’s just wrap this up huh

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 1d

We need an anti authoritarian party. Not just one who wants to be polite about it.

And this isn't a both sides bad post. This is saying we need to lift up the voices calling for accountability and liberty. Not just fight those who are rude as well as tyrannical.

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Someday we need to reckon with the fact that most lawmakers on the left keep giving the far right a pass because they're terrified they will be held to standards and consequences too.

How many times has a dem leader given back power snatched during gop administration?

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Woah is that legit?

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 1d

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Stephen Blackmoore @stephenblackmoore.com · 1d

Pam Bondi stands before a sea of inflatable frogs and says their lives will be spared if they give up the one known as Portland Frog.

“I am Portland Frog!” cries one.

“I am Portland Frog!” yells another.

Soon they all take up the cry and she quails in fear.

FOR WE ARE ALL PORTLAND FROG

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 2d

😂

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 1d

I see a lot of people saying that a person charged with a crime deserves the chance to prove their innocence.

Please stop doing this because you have it backwards and this is really important.

It is ALWAYS the government's burden to prove a person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 1d

Sometime I should make a post about the difference in how Fear & Hunger and From Software handle the Berserk influence. Because it's clear in both, but in very different ways.

From draws on atmosphere and theme and offers winks to Berserk. Fear & Hunger is basically Berserk: The Game.

Nathan Hall (WIP A Fort in Winter) @nathanhallwrites.bsky.social · 1d

The combination of the new YT algorithm plastering videos you've already watched on the Home screen + letting creators give videos multiple thumbnails and titles to cycle through...

It's brilliant, just brilliant, no notes.

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Luke Tarzian @luketarzian.bsky.social · 1d

Listening to perhaps my most popular book, brought to life by the absolute perfect narrator, is so fucking surreal, man.

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